2023-07-28 20:00:35
Among the forecasts of the security service of the Dutch royal house there could be a terrorist attack, an accident, perhaps even an attack by a hostile state. But in September 2022, following the interception of some messages between drug dealers, he had to include the hashish and marijuana mafia in the list of threats. The Mocro Mafia – a Dutch drug-trafficking network controlled by Moroccan bosses – has among his targets Princess Amàlia of the Netherlandsand also the resigned Prime Minister, Mark Rutte. The princess has had her movements very limited for security reasons for a year, as her royal household has admitted.
A crown princess under threat of death is not exactly a usual scenario. Since the assassination of J. F. Kennedy, there had never been such a direct mob attack against the leaders of a democracy. And it’s not a local pity: the bands that aim to strike a blow at the top of the Dutch State are fighting to monopolize the distribution of marijuana and hashish in northern Europe… with suppliers in Camp de GibraltarHuelva, Almeria, Malaga and Alicante.
The Mocro Mafia doesn’t just sell weed and cannabis resin. He has assets for his cocaine trade ties with the South American posters, attracted by the control they have of the port of Rotterdam. It is a command conquered on the basis of shooting down the resistance in the Dutch city… or sending hitmen against exiled bosses on the Costa del Sol.
The Andalusian provinces where this northern network has its importers is the area of special action in which, this legislature, Interior undertook a antinarco war to regain the authority of the State. The loss of control had been evidenced on February 6, 2018. Twenty drug pawns stormed the La Línea hospital de la Concepción (Cádiz) and from there they took their employer, SCD, whom the agents had caught in a raid on the beach. The narcos entered, overtook the Police, broke the handcuffs with what the head was tied to a pipeand they got him out of there in less than ten minutes.
Another Atlantic alliance
Another Atlantic allianceUnder the turn of the Spanish presidency of the EU, the European ministries of the Interior want to manufacture a Euro-American pincer against this criminal understanding that works on both sides of the ocean. They are ready to build what the minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska calls the “Atlantic alliance” against organized crime.
It serves for the project the accumulated experience establishing operational and intelligence pacts with the governments of the Balkans and the United States. They talked about it in their informal meeting in Logronyo on the 20th
That’s why next September 28, in the next JAI council (Ministers of Interior and Justice) will be present the ministers of 12 CLASI countriesthe Latin American Committee for Internal Security, with which Spain intends to promote a joint declaration.
hi ha rush to Spain and Holland, and almost all of Europe, to comply with the Interior objectives agenda. The next European presidency, which will be held by Belgium from January, is considered an unhelpful period, since in the middle of the semester the legislative activity it will get stuck in the preparations for the European elections. And then it is his turn to preside over Hungary, with one of the most Eurosceptic governments on the continent.
More violent every time
More violent every timeWhen the mafias wage wars against each other, as deaf as they are, the dead end up surfacing in unexpected places in Europe. It was a hiker who was walking in the Sierra de Novelda who found the last remains two weeks ago, some sneakers and some bones, of a missing Moroccan in the Alicante town of Asp. The skull had a bullet holethe shot he took when, with others from his band, he goes to raid the villa of some Polish narcos to steal a load of drugs from them. The Poles took the body and buried it in the mountain.
“Organized crime is one of the main threats to freedom and security in Europe”, insist sources from the ministerial team of the Interior. At the top of this department all the legislature that are verifying that the mafia networks “they increasingly use corruption and infiltration of the legal economy”, even disinformation and other hybrid threats. In its most visible facet, violence, there is a European consensus that its most serious manifestations are associated, above all, with drug trafficking.
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The increasing lethality of mafias in Europe becomes more disturbing in the face of a finding made a week ago in Logrono by the European Commissioner for the Interior, Ylva Johansson: “The battle against organized crime and its links with drug trafficking it’s a battle we’re not winning,” he admitted to add: “They are becoming more professional, more organized and more violent”.
From the meeting under the Spanish presidency, it transpired that the European Commission shares the need to strengthen the police tools of theEMPACT (European Multidisciplinary Platform against Criminal Threats). “It is necessary one network to defeat another network”, summarized Johansson. In the fall, Europe will be embarking on an anti-narcotics offensive.
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